OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

resonances??

pretty sure resonances is 100% not a word

i mean i'm not sure what we should be expecting from like, artistdirect, but even so woooooooooowwwww.

He must have meant 'resonations'. A literal symphony of them.

And I had no idea artistdirect was still a thing

resonances is definitely a word

checked, it is indeed, but it still sounds mad ridiculous in plural form and is unnecessary in the context of that review

I agree. It is a widely used word in my field, so it doesn't sound weird anymore. 'A symphony of resonances' is terribly lol, though, and I plan to use it if I ever come across some bad glass.

Hahahahahahahaha!

I mean credit to the New York Times there -- after the Dan Brooks thing, they realized that if you're going to troll, leave it to a total fucking pro.

a gathering of bare-armed, bare-legged lovers of song and smokers of pot

Frank Bruni received money to write this.

While recording devices have liberated many of us from commercials on television, the rest of our lives are awash in ads. They’re now nestled among the trailers at movies. They flicker on the screens in taxis.

Cause, meet effect!

They’re woven so thoroughly into sporting events, from Nascar races to basketball games, that it’s hard to imagine an era when they weren’t omnipresent. But in a story earlier this year on the website Consumerist, Chris Moran reported that 20 years ago, only one of the major-league baseball stadiums had a corporate moniker, Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

"Hi dere, I have never heard of Wrigley Field (built in 1914)!"

He's a talented man.

maybe he only watches the World Series?

“Keep Austin Weird” is the Texas capital’s unofficial slogan, a clue to its proudly subversive soul.

can we talk about how Austin is really not weird, like, at all?

i feel like it got some rep because it was in texas and slightly more "quirky" than dallas

Keep (X) Weird

I'm a super dilettante when it comes to Texas but for what it's worth, I found Houston to be a LOT weirder than Austin. Or a lot more bohemian, arty and exciting at least.

Austin is weird gone mainstream, so isn't actually that weird anymore. From my experience the past few years Houston and Dallas weird are still out on the fringes so lack that homogenizing factor.

austin has livenationed up, totes

Keep Austin Weird, brought to you by Doritos.

Performing “Summertime Sadness,” Lana Del Rey told a lover to “kiss me hard before you go.” Would she be texting him later with a Samsung Galaxy, the smartphone for which the stage on which she appeared was visibly named?

What hope do antisystemic movements have if LDR has deserted us?

Thanks for this dumb link, Ted Giola.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/smart-people-listen-to-radiohead-and-dumb-people-listen-to-beyonce-according-to-new-study/

oops I mean Gioia

enraging

this is a much better candidate than most stuff that gets posted in here

Soca

Reggaeton

Soca

poor meghan trainor

http://virgil.gr/

this isn't even a new study, this shit resurfaces every year or so

If they're so smart why do they listen to radiohead

*clink*

wordsandideasthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr

that chart was worthwhile for me just for making it clear that jazz is dumb

http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/musicdetails.php?music=Beethoven

i think what this suggests is that students at elite schools are cornball conformists just like every other batch of students, they just have learned to say the name of THE MOST FAVED COMPOSER IN ALL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC alongside their otherwise typically normal tastes as a way of signalling their aspirations to appreciate, or belong to, some kind of more refined coterie than the one they actually live in, which mostly listens to… U2, jack johnson, and the beatles lol

any study that says "dumb people listen to jazz, smart people listen to red hot chili peppers'....man idk

those poor kids w/a 1316 have spent so long studying they have no time for any music and they still can't crack 1400

every music study sucks

like, just blow it all up and start over

Rip it up and start again, I'd say.

Friend on fb just posited the theory that Counting Crows ranked so high in this because people with high SAT scores like counting.

This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff:

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2014-10/return-aphex-twin-110978

Amherst College 1419 1430 83% 31 (~1365) 17% 1648 amherst Amherst, MA
1. The Shins ... 5. Radiohead ... 7. Beethoven ... 9. David Bowie ...

15 Williams College 1414 1420 97% 31 (~1385) 20% 2003 williams Williamstown, MA
1. Coldplay 2. The Beatles 3. U2 4. Jack Johnson 5. Radiohead 6. Counting Crows 7. Bob Dylan 8. Guster 9. The Killers 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers

LOL

Colorado School of Mines 1244 1250 59% 28 (~1240) 75% 3310 mines Golden, CO
1. Metallica ... 3. Linkin Park 4. Lifehouse ... 6. John Mayer 7. Disturbed 8. Country 9. Bob Dylan ...

i know a dweeby hyper-catholic oil-industry dude who for some reason is really enthusiastic about metal, that explains a lot

Lifehouse!

they played a casino near me recently! i had no idea they were still a band or still had a following

"No Name Face" 33 1/3 written from the perspective of a Colorado School of Mines freshman hearing "Hanging By a Moment" for the first time

This could be worse, but there's something about reading a writer struggling to praise something he likes that's more awkward than reading someone ripping on something he doesn't like or doesn't understand (which is the usual DeRo mo). Lots of this reads like DeRo holding on for dear life, which may be why the piece is 80% preamble and modest payoff

Also, DeRo continues to call him "THE Aphex Twin."

Saw this article linked and thought of this thread. http://i.imgur.com/Ya2j4NR.png?1

That is kinda wondrous

Third para especially a masterpiece

it's got a touch of objective game reviews.

https://medium.com/@boma23/dear-artists-no-one-cares-if-you-put-out-new-music-bc03f9aebc6d

Chance The Rapper hasn’t put out a project in almost 2 years

18 months and counting. A regular Axl Rose.